Jacques Mistral (born September 22, 1947) is a French

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and

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. He is a member of the Conseil d'Analyse Économique in France, a member of the

Cercle des économistes Le Cercle des économistes is a French think tank founded in 1992 by Jean-Hervé Lorenzi. The association is made up of 30 economists who are also French university academics. It is a non-profit organization whose mission is to organize and promo ...

, and as of October 2009, a member of the scientific council of the center-right think tank ''Fondation pour l'innovation politique''.

Early life

Mistral was born in

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, France. He graduated from the

École Polytechnique (, ; also known as Polytechnique or l'X ) is a ''grande école'' located in Palaiseau, France. It specializes in science and engineering and is a founding member of the Polytechnic Institute of Paris. The school was founded in 1794 by mat ...

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in 1967 and earned his Ph.D. in Economics from the

University of Paris I A university () is an institution of tertiary education and research which awards academic degrees in several academic disciplines. ''University'' is derived from the Latin phrase , which roughly means "community of teachers and scholars". Univ ...

in 1977.

Career

Mistral has held several professorships: from 1978 to 1992, he was a professor of economics at Université Paris-Nord; from 1974 to 1992, at ENSAE; from 1984 to 1994, at the

; and from 1982 to 1996, at

Sciences Po Sciences Po () or Sciences Po Paris, also known as the Paris Institute of Political Studies (), is a public research university located in Paris, France, that holds the status of ''grande école'' and the legal status of . The university's unde ...

. He also held several posts as an economic advisor. From 1988 to 1992, he was an economic advisor for the then-prime minister,

Michel Rocard Michel Rocard (; 23 August 1930 – 2 July 2016) was a French politician and a member of the Socialist Party (France), Socialist Party (PS). He served as Prime Minister of France, Prime Minister under François Mitterrand from 1988 to 199 ...

; from 2000 to 2001, he was a special advisor of political economy and international relations for the Minister of Economics, Finances, and Industry,

Laurent Fabius Laurent Fabius (; born 20 August 1946) is a French politician. A member of the Socialist Party (France), Socialist Party, he previously served as Prime Minister of France from 17 July 1984 to 20 March 1986. Fabius was 37 years old when he was a ...

. He held several executive positions as a member of the AXA Group, including central director and director of human resources in France. He was also a senior fellow at the Kennedy School of Government at

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from 2005 to 2006. Mistral was president of the

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from 2008 to 2012. Currently, Mistral is the head of economic research at the French Institute for International Relations ( ''Institut Français des Relations Internationales''), a member of the Conseil d'Analyse Économique for the Prime Minister, and a nonresident senior fellow in Global Economy and Development at the

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. His economic interests are international economics, the international monetary system, the eurozone crisis, and the relationship between the United States, China, and the EU.

Political positions

In the French presidential election of 2012, Mistral endorsed Socialist Party candidate and eventual winner

François Hollande François Gérard Georges Nicolas Hollande (; born 12 August 1954) is a French politician who served as President of France from 2012 to 2017. Before his presidency, he was First Secretary of the Socialist Party (France), First Secretary of th ...

References

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